The Yamiyo Shrine is one of the easiest shrines players can complete in the earliest parts of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Shrines often contain complex puzzles which can only be solved using a combination of Link’s abilities and player imagination; however, the Yamiyo Shrine doesn’t require players to do much. It’s a great way to claim a powerful Light of Blessing with relatively little effort.
To reach the Yamiyo Shrine, players must have completed Tears of the Kingdom’s Great Sky Island Shrines. These serve as a tutorial for the game before Link is sent back down to Hyrule. From here, players can find the Yamiyo Shrine in Central Hyrule.
How To Find The Yamiyo Shrine In The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
Much like Tears of the Kingdom’s Sepapa Shrine, the Yamiyo Shrine is located northeast of Lookout Landing. Players can find their way there using the map coordinates 0332, 0471, 0029. This location isn’t too hard to find since it’s near a big path.
It’s well worth taking the time to tame a mount for Link as soon as possible as this makes traveling to shrines much easier.
Completing The Yamiyo Shrine
The Yamiyo Shrine doesn’t have puzzles like most other shrines. Instead, it serves as a combat tutorial designed to teach players the art of throwing items. Link can throw a wide variety of items and weapons at enemies to deal damage, and it’s highly recommended that players take the opportunity to get some practice in.
On entering the shrine, Link will find himself in a big room with four Fire Fruit plants. Grab some Fire Fruit.
Fire Fruits can be attached to arrows to give them fire effects or cooked with other ingredients. As such, they never really stop being useful, so grab all the Fire Fruits in the Yamiyo Shrine.
A hostile Zonai construct will spawn, and players will need to take it down by hitting it with thrown items. To throw an item, press the R button and then Up on the D-Pad to select the Fire Fruit in the pop-up menu. After the first hit, the Zonai will start moving around, giving players a moving target to hit.
After a few hits, the construct will collapse, allowing Link to progress into the final shrine chamber. The chest in this chamber contains a few Bomb Flowers, which can be used to craft explosive arrows. Finally, players can also claim a Light of Blessing. Players can exchange four of these items for an extra Heart Container or Stamina upgrades for Link.
As such, the Yamiyo Shrine is an easy way for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players to grab vital early upgrade material.
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Franchise:
- The Legend of Zelda
- Platform:
- Nintendo Switch
- Released:
- 2023-05-12
- Developer:
- Nintendo EPD
- Publisher:
- Nintendo
- Genre:
- Action-Adventure
- ESRB:
- E10+
- Summary:
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the anticipated follow-up to Breath of the Wild, released in 2017. A rare occurrence in Zelda titles, Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel instead of loosely connected. In Tears of the Kingdom, Link will take to the skies and learn about a mysterious kingdom in the clouds. Additionally, he will discover the secrets of the dark ones that dwell below and above the earth. The sequel is being built on the same engine as the original, with unique physics tools again being utilized. However, little about the plot and gameplay is known.
- How Long To Beat:
- 35-50 hours
- Prequel:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
